For Democrats, there is left, and then there is LEFT!

Rich Terrell

Another excuse for Hillary's 2016 loss: Democrats fear Sanders may undermine efforts to beat Trump

"But after we win in 2018, it will be leftward HO!"

2016: "Democratic Party leaders are upping the pressure on Bernie Sanders to drop his presidential campaign, alarmed that his continued presence is undermining efforts to beat the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, and again win the White House.

“ 'I don’t think they think of the downside of this,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a supporter of front-runner Hillary Clinton and broker of the post-primary peace between Clinton and then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in 2008." . . .

Moderate Democrats push back against 'wild-eyed' leftward lurch of the party

 A group of moderate Democratic lawmakers sounded the alarm Thursday over the party's shift to the left, saying the embrace of ultra-liberal policies could endanger their efforts to capture Congress in the November midterm elections and the White House in 2020.

Chris Coons

“The next two years is just a race to offer increasingly unrealistic proposals, to rally just those who are already with us,” Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, told a gathering of like-minded centrists at a strategy session in Washington. But with a far-left agenda, Coons warned, “it’ll be difficult for us to make a credible case that we should be allowed to govern again and easier and easier to mock and marginalize us.” 

Most Liberal House Dem Barbara Lee Wants to Replace Crowley as Caucus Leader
"Liberal"? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. TD

. . . "Lee, an antiwar member of the House Progressive Caucus whose Bay Area district includes Berkeley*, was the only member of Congress to vote against retaliatory action after al-Qaeda struck the United States on 9/11. “As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore," she said at the time.

"Lee was rated the most liberal member of the House in GovTrack's 2017 ideology rankings. Crowley fell in the middle of the House Dems' ranking.

"In a letter to colleagues today, Lee stressed that "the strength of our caucus lies in our diversity of experiences and ideas.' " . . .

* That would be on the California coast, in case you didn't know.

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